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Corporate Overview

Proofpoint is a leading cybersecurity company protecting organizations’ greatest assets and biggest risks: vulnerabilities in people. With an integrated suite of cloud-based solutions, Proofpoint helps companies around the world stop targeted threats, safeguard their data, and make their users more resilient against cyber-attacks. Leading organizations of all sizes, including more than half of the Fortune 1000, rely on Proofpoint for people-centric security and compliance solutions mitigating their most critical risks across email, the cloud, social media, and the web.

We are singularly devoted to helping our customers protect their greatest assets and biggest security risk: their people. That’s why we’re a leader in next-generation cybersecurity. Protection Starts with People.

The Role

Proofpoint is looking for a high energy software engineer to join the Threat Response product team. Cloud Threat Response is one of the fastest growing products at Proofpoint. It revolutionizes how customers manage the increasing volume and complexity of cyber-attacks. The explosion of new threat detection technologies is creating a huge volume of security alerts that overwhelm manual security response processes and lead to delays or errors that can land companies in the headlines. Threat Response closes the gap between cyber-attack detection and containment by providing a platform that unifies security infrastructure, allowing customers to analyze and respond to security events in real time.

Engineers on the Threat Response team have a full-stack responsibility and wear multiple hats. We are always working on new projects and features, so there will be ample opportunity to be creative and innovate in this role. Ideal candidates have broad technical experience in multiple areas, creative problem-solving skills, familiarity with the latest technologies, and the ability to write solid code and tests with good coverage. Everyone on the team is passionate about their work, and the team has a consistent track record of getting things done on time, while maintaining a good balance of work and life.

Your day-to-day

• Design, code, review, test and deploy software features in our application stack on schedule.

• Collaborate well with others, be a great teammate, and help us maintain our positive culture.

• Support the team and production applications by resolving bugs and technical issues as part of on-call duties.

• Be ready to adapt and pitch in on other projects as needed.

What you bring to the team

• Strong coding skills in Java, Python, Ruby. Unix skills is a plus.

• Experience working with multiple AWS resources like RDS, SQS, SNS, MSK etc. for a multi-tenant web application is highly desired.

• Experience with cloud-native enterprise web application development and micro-services.

• Experience working with Microsoft Graph API or Google G Suite APIs is a plus.

• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

Why Proofpoint

As a customer focused and driven-to-win organization with leading edge products, there are many exciting reasons to join the Proofpoint team. We believe in hiring the best the brightest and cultivating a culture of collaboration and appreciation. As we continue to grow and expand globally, we understand that hiring the right people and developing great teams is key to our success! We are a multi-national company with locations in many countries, with each location contributing to Proofpoint’s amazing culture!

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If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!

Proofpoint has been honored with six Best Places to Work Awards in 2024 by workplace culture leader Comparably, including Best Company Career Growth, Best Company Outlook, Best Global Culture, Best Engineering Teams, Best Sales Teams, and Best HR Teams.

To view additional awards, please visit www.proofpoint.com/us/news#awards

Proofpoint thrives on the invaluable contributions of our diverse workforce, which encompasses a kaleidoscope of lived experiences, thoughts, perspectives, and professional expertise. We attribute much of our success to our people, who are at the core of our organization and embody our people-centric ethos.

We hire the most innovative minds globally to safeguard our customers’ sensitive data and intellectual property. Our talented workforce develops and leverages our advanced technology, combining their expertise to provide comprehensive protection against threat actors and mitigate the risks posed by both malicious and negligent employees.

Cyberattacks have the potential to disrupt access to vital resources such as energy, water, transportation, healthcare, and financial services. At Proofpoint, our dedicated team works tirelessly to ensure world-class cyber resilience, protecting approximately 8,000 enterprise customers worldwide.

We are committed to creating a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment. We work every day to ensure that our employees feel that they are in a community that celebrates their unique identity, cultivates their sense of belonging, and invests in their professional growth. We have 9 employee-led employee inclusion groups which help support both employees and our organization by providing opportunities to network, discuss career and cultural development and uplift the corporate culture to create a more inclusive workplace.

At Proofpoint, we have a passion for protecting people, data, and brands from today’s advanced threats and compliance risks. We hire the best people in the business to:

• Build and enhance our proven security platform

• Blend innovation and speed in a constantly evolving cloud architecture

• Analyze new threats and offer deep insight through data-driven intel

• Collaborate with customers to help solve their toughest security challenges

   

We are singularly devoted to helping our customers protect what matters most. That’s why we’re a leader in next-generation cybersecurity—and why more than half of the Fortune 100 trust us as a security partner.

Proofpoint is an equal opportunity employer, we hire without consideration to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status or disability.

Proofpoint is an equal opportunity employer, we hire without consideration to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status or disability.